Pre-Dreadnought Preservation

Bits & Pieces ~ Relics from vanished vessels

The Oregon ~ United States
The Maine ~ United States
The Almirante Oquendo ~ Spain
The Puglia ~ Italy
The Vindictive ~ United Kingdom
The K�nigsberg ~ Germany

Coastal Defense from the Pre-Dreadnought Era

Odds & Ends - links to other interesting sites of roughly the same period in naval development including Full Scale Replicas, Naval History, Wargaming, the Great White Fleet, the wrecks at Scapa Flow, Uniforms & Insignia and Re-enactment.

Some general links about the Pre-Dreadnought period:

• Extracts from Brassey's Naval Annual
• Pre-Dreadnought Medium Armament
• Wikipedia Entry on Pre-Dreadnoughts
• Japanese Site on Ironclads

Frequently Asked Questions About Ships & Pieces Outside the Pre-Dreadnought Period:

Not a pre-dreadnought because she was not armored, the sloop-of-war/colonial cruiser HMS Gannet survives from the pre-dreadnought period at the Historic Dockyard Chatham.

And while outside the period of this web site's interest, the last remaining Dreadnought: The Texas ~ United States

Those beautiful 15-inch guns outside the Imperial War Museum in London are from two seperate Super-Dreadnoughts.

Casemate Ironclads: The designs of these very interesting ships did not lead to the pre-Dreadnoughts. However, since everyone wants to know more about them:

• The C.S.S. Jackson at the National Civil War Naval Museum at Port Columbus.
• The C.S.S. Georgia from the US Army Corps of Engineers.
• The C.S.S. Neuse at the C.S.S. Neuse State Historic Site.
• The U.S.S. Cairo at the Vicksburg National Military Park.
• The C.S.S. Virginia in cyberspace.
• See also the Ironclads and Blockade Runners of the American Civil War.